[ On Thursday, June 1, 2000 at 10:55:52 (+1000), Simon Burge wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: field widths in ps(1). 
>
> In summary, the kernel data is only fetched once, but all data is
> effectively formatted twice.

That's cool.  (I'm a bit surprised at your timing numbers though --
perhaps some optimisations can be made in the first pass when computing
the column widths.)

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